Geek And Poke

The History Of Web 2.0 - Part 4

2006-09-18T12:29:00.000-07:00

In the dark mediaval times Web 2.0 was kind of an underground culture.

See also part 3.

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A Revolutionary New Project

2006-09-17T03:56:00.000-07:00

After Larry Sanger has announced The Citizendium (see Nicholas Carrs blog post) this is just a guess what he will announce in a few years.

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The History Of Web 2.0 - Part 3

2006-09-16T15:10:00.000-07:00

If you wondered why all Web-2.0-site-names end with 'r' here's the solution.

See also part 2.

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The Podnoses - Episode 14

2006-09-15T14:15:00.000-07:00

See also episode 13.

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The Market For Web 2.0 Companies

2006-09-14T16:04:00.000-07:00

As posted by Donna Bogatin and Dan Farber Mr. Web 2.0 Michael Arrington divided the Web 2.0 companies in winners (got acquired) and the others.
Here is my guess for a reasonable price list.

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The History Of Web 2.0 - Part 2

2006-09-13T15:54:00.000-07:00

But it was not only fun in the very very early years of Web 2.0.
See also Part 1.

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The History Of Web 2.0 - Part 1

2006-09-13T15:50:00.000-07:00

From the very beginning of the mankind Web 2.0 has played a huge role.

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Learn From The Masters

2006-09-12T14:16:00.000-07:00

The Patricia Dunn story goes on (see Scobleizer). To survive she should learn from the masters.

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The Wiki Maoism

2006-09-11T14:05:00.000-07:00

Dana Blankenhorn has posted about Jaron Laniers column "DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism".

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Will HP Akquire Facebook?

2006-09-10T03:48:00.000-07:00

I'm not an analyst but I guess it would be quite reasonable for HP to akquire Facebook. They could use it to solve their problems with leakers.

(About the leaker story see e.g. the Scobleizer, he's constantly blogging about it.
About the Facebook story see Techcrunch.)

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The Facebook Family 2

2006-09-09T12:57:00.000-07:00

Facebook endorses privacy and gives the users the ability to opt out of the "attention stream" (see Techcrunch).

The Wikipedian Churches

2006-09-09T03:57:00.000-07:00

Nick Carr posted several times about the Wikipedian philosophies (see "Deletionists, inclusionists and delusionists" and "Small pieces unjoined"). Maybe it's getting more and more important which of these Wikipedian churches you belong to.

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The Podnoses - Episode 13

2006-09-09T01:16:00.000-07:00

See also episode 12.

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Times Recur

2006-09-07T15:58:00.000-07:00

By watching the Digg discussion about aristocrats and noneternals (see Nick Carr and Techcrunch) it's good to know that even Web 2.0 is done by Mankind 1.0.

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The Facebook Family

2006-09-06T14:43:00.000-07:00

With the new Facebooks feeds users will be in between the "attention stream" (see the Techcrunch post). They will love it.

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The Web 2.0 Discoint

2006-09-05T16:14:00.000-07:00

After Web 2.0 has become cheap enough (Huckabuck is sold on eBay and the highest bid is - 2 days before end - 8,300 $, see e.g. Rob Hofs blog post) it's a nice present for christmas.

The Podnoses - Episode 12

2006-09-04T14:07:00.000-07:00

See also episode 11.

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The Unsolved Problem

2006-09-03T08:04:00.000-07:00

Christoper Locke, Dave Winer and Robert Scoble faced the problem to decide whether the New New Internet event is real or a parody.
What does that say about Web 2.0?

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The Long Tail Opportunity

2006-08-31T15:01:00.000-07:00

The Long Tail is widely discussed (see e.g. Rough Type). But no one sees the real opportunity in it.

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The Podnoses - Episode 11

2006-08-30T13:22:00.000-07:00

See also episode 10.

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The Latest Judgment

2006-08-29T15:48:00.000-07:00

The Web 2.0 trend might lead into a dead-end (like Tom Foremski posted).
But after you've ended dead it may give you some reasonable arguments before the Latest Judgment.

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The Podnoses - Episode 10

2006-08-28T14:55:00.000-07:00

See also episode 9.

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It's Not Over

2006-08-27T04:16:00.002-07:00

As Marshall Kirkpatrick (TechCrunch) and James Yu reported has Digg forced DiggGames.com to cease using Digg in its name. DiggGames.com moved to games1.org.
I wonder why no one has "1" trademarked.

The Podnoses - Episode 9

2006-08-26T03:09:00.000-07:00

Every Age Has Its Own Jobs

2006-08-25T15:12:00.000-07:00

After SOA is available for Dummies (see Steve Hamms blog post) we're all looking forward to even more SOA-VPs, -Managers, ... and the like. I'm curious how long it will take until they will face the same destiny as the e-Business-Incubators from the end of the last millenium.

The Podnoses - Episode 8

2006-08-23T13:40:00.000-07:00

0.0 + 0.0 = 2.0

2006-08-22T15:37:00.000-07:00

Paul Kedrosky wonders about the small amount of Web 2.0 company failures. Rob Hof says it's just to early but the carnage is about to come.
I think also we're still in the weird phase. The wake-up phase has not begun.

The Podnoses - Episode 7

2006-08-21T13:18:00.000-07:00

The Unfulfilled Dream

2006-08-20T13:41:00.000-07:00

Steve Gillmor rarely spends links (even in his contribution to the actual Nick-Carr-Dispute). Michael Arrington calls Nicholas Carr an asshole but spends him a link. There really a strange caste at the top of the blog hierarchy.
Getting a link from them is a (mostly) unfulfilled dream of the most B, C, D-blogger.

The Podnoses - Episode 6

2006-08-20T03:16:00.000-07:00

The Podnoses - Episode 5

2006-08-19T08:24:00.000-07:00

The Podnoses - Episode 4

2006-08-19T07:35:00.000-07:00

Only What's Written Can Be Unread

2006-08-18T14:48:00.000-07:00

Nicholas Carr's blog post about unread bloggers is greatly written. No one has to accept (I do not agree with him), but that's the nature of a commentary.
My understanding lacks when I read all the harsh posts (see Shel Israels Open Letter and hear Michael Arringtons applaud him). Is this the culture of the blogosphere?
If so, I'm glad to have the old fashioned media.

The Podnoses - Episode 3

2006-08-18T12:11:00.000-07:00

The Podnoses - Episode 2

2006-08-17T13:52:00.000-07:00

The Podnoses - Episode 1

2006-08-16T14:14:00.000-07:00

This is the start of a new and irregular series of three guys starting a new podcast.
It's not related to actual news.

The Lonely Battle

2006-08-14T13:18:00.000-07:00

I do like Nicholas Carr's blogs posts about all these Web-2.0-ish (see his post Cold treats) things. We need them to stay half-way normal.

Google Has Lost Its Virginity

2006-08-13T15:05:00.000-07:00

After Google Video has lowered its restrictions for adult videos (see blog posts from Mike Arrington and Donna Bogatin) you may have to justify your visits on this site.

The AOL Disclosure Was Just Good Intention

2006-08-09T15:54:00.000-07:00

The disclosure of the 20,000,000 searches (see e.g. the Richard Stiennon blog or Nicholas Carr) was not a accident but the benign intention to do social search:
Don't be prude. Let the community participate in your search.

Does The Blogosphere Get Normal?

2006-08-08T15:36:00.000-07:00

As Nicholas Carr blogged: Google likes the MySpace way. And some bloggers may not resist.
But I guess that's not the death of the Web-2.0-way. It's just getting older.

Web 2.0 Has Reached Aviation

2006-08-06T13:29:00.000-07:00

There has not been an event lately causing this cartoon.
But this blog post from Ed Gottsman inspired me (though it does not have much to do with aviation).

The Happy Web 2.0

2006-08-04T16:05:00.000-07:00

2.0 could be so nice if you not had to make a 1.0 living.
Thank god that AOL gave 5000 the freedom back.

The Truth Behind The Vista Delay

2006-08-03T15:07:00.000-07:00

Eventually in summer 2009 in a headquarter in Redmond

Now we know why Vista is delayed. They are waiting until OS X is almost as unsecure as Vista (and maybe we will not have to wait too long).

Top Social Bookmarker

2006-07-31T16:18:00.000-07:00

At the Netscape parking lot

Maybe social bookmarkers (and the like) will be the new stars in Web 2.0. As a good contribution to the discussion about paid peers in a community see Nicholas Carr's blog post.

DMCA And Modern Music

2006-07-31T03:00:00.000-07:00

There is no actual reason for this cartoon.

Second Life And Reality

2006-07-30T12:19:00.000-07:00

Second Life is becoming more and more real. See the latest blog post from Dan Farber.

The SOA Stack

2006-07-28T09:21:00.000-07:00

Tell me one IT vendor who is not about to buy or has just bought a SOA stack and tools. See e.g. "HP acquired Mercury".

Web 2.0 And Business 1.9

2006-07-26T14:19:00.000-07:00

I think even in the 2.0 ages the business has something 1.x-ish.
Maybe I'm wrong. But I think that even Chad Hurley has said not to do he will sell his money-burning-factory when someone comes with enough money.

Cranky Steaks

2006-07-25T15:03:00.000-07:00

The Haute Cousine cook John C. Dvorak has undisclosed his recipe Flank Steak.

The Zune Rabbit

2006-07-23T12:59:00.000-07:00

Have you seen the small Zune spot on comingzune?
I guess this little cute rabbit will the guy you have to deal with in order to hear a song with your new Zune.

But I guess also that after dealing with him you'll get the following:

What's More Important Than Code Styles?

2006-07-21T14:57:00.000-07:00

I like talking about code styles. See e.g. Tor Norbye's blogpost.

Who Knows?

2006-07-19T15:26:00.000-07:00

The world in 2016

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Richard Monson-Haefels prediction that Java EE 5 is destined for the ash heap of history has lead to a lot of uproar in the blogosphere.
But at the end of the day we all geeks have to admit: No one knows.

In The Bootcamp

2006-07-17T13:22:00.000-07:00

Enough said about the Apple Bootcamp. Now it's time for a cartoon.
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SOA And Legacy

2006-07-07T11:21:00.000-07:00

SOAfying legacy systems can get quite difficult

There are two reasons for this post:
1. I've had no SOA-post yet.
2. The ARCast episode Migrating Legacy Systems to SOA on Channel9. But I don't know if Ohad Israeli has touched the real hard stuff. These old dinosaur-data-silos where no one knows what goes on inside. But nevertheless a good show.

(Addendum: I've chosen the wrong words. I didn't want to say that Ohad has no experience with the hard SOA-legacy-stuff. I just wanted to say that the podcast is not about it. Sorry!)

Carrs Latest Funeral

2006-07-05T14:26:00.001-07:00

Nick Carr has a lot of trends pronounced dead:

The Custom IT (see his book "Does IT matter?").
Wikipedia. (See his blog post
"The death of Wikipedia")
And now Digg and by the way the whole Web 2.0

I'm a bit skeptical.

Gizwizs In Space

2006-07-02T12:58:00.000-07:00

Even in the future it will be a good advise to have some clothes to throw away in your package.

The Daily Giz Wiz Dick DeBartolo has disclosed his awesome strategy to get place for gadgets in his luggage. He pick up old clothes and throw them away on the journey. Great!

(Another space related cartoon - but without gizwizs - can be seen in a former post of this blog:
The Quick Start Guide For The NCC-1701-D, Chapter 1: Never ever use the holodeck toilet!)

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

2006-06-29T14:07:00.000-07:00

As the dog walked down the Broadway, saw the lamb and recalled the old Genesis song he awaked to the fact, that he was way older than Web 2.0.

Just a post with "Web 2.0" in it. No Proposition.

The Obligatory Contribution To Net Neutrality

2006-06-28T12:20:00.000-07:00

Chickens are not completely so chuckleheaded as most of us assumed.
British ornithologists discovored that the White Welsh Coot masters the art of dialectic.
In its long walks along the coast of Wales it does deep contemplation about Net Neutrality.

In these days one has to write about net neutrality. So do I.

Gillmor Is The Gang

2006-06-26T15:53:00.000-07:00

What were the Gillmor Gang without himself?
See the great Pinhead Gang.

Emotional Standards

2006-06-25T12:30:00.000-07:00

It's amzing how emotionally geeks can discuss about standards. A good example is the BloggerCon discussion Standars matters.

Not All Geeks Are Equal (2)

2006-06-22T12:34:00.000-07:00

One of these 3 Geeks is a big soccer fan
Two of them not.

This cartoon is again dedicated to the Geeks being fan of the US soccer team. (Sorry Joe from Java Posse).

A Big Step For Mankind

2006-06-19T14:15:00.000-07:00

New hope in the slums of the big cities

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I couldn't hear who. But one of the TWiTs in episode #58 said, that every third could now (with Google Earth 4.0 Beta) see his own house. Provided he had internet access. Brilliant!!!

That obliged me to create this cartoon.

The Man For The Really Hard Stuff

2006-06-17T04:58:00.000-07:00

When you have really intricate stuff to explain: Ask Steve Gibson

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Steve Gibson is really a wizard in explaining the unexplainable. A good example is the NAT episode #42 of Security Now.

Not All Geeks Are Equal

2006-06-16T14:13:00.000-07:00

One of these 3 Geeks is a big soccer fan

Two of them not.

This cartoon is dedicated to all Geeks being soccer fan (esp. in the USA where it is presumably not as easy as in the rest of the world; but as I'm not living in the USA I can only guess).
A prominent example is Joe Nuxoll of the Java Posse, who avowed himself as a soccer fan in episode #61).

The Invention Of The Week

2006-06-14T12:25:00.000-07:00

Pedestrian light for blind men

Pedestrian light for deaf men

Today again a non-IT-cartoon.
I hope you enjoy it nervertheless.

A Casters Life Is Getting Harder

2006-06-13T14:59:00.000-07:00

The Vloggercon TWiT #57: It's fascinating how all the freeky geeks are discussing about the definiton of a notion just being in its genesis (or its agony, who knows).

A Bees Life Is Hard

2006-06-12T15:28:00.000-07:00

As I've had no better ideas today the todays cartoon has nothing to do with IT. And like the one from Wednesday is totally meaningless.

Am I Having A Deja vu?

2006-06-11T15:46:00.000-07:00

When I hear Inside the Net I sometimes feel like we're in the good old Web 1.0 bubble. But after I've heard episode 24 (about Firefox) I've seen that there is real estate out there.
The only question is: Is Firefox Web 2.0?
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4 Geeks, 3 Hats, 2 IDEs And One Language

2006-06-10T13:10:00.000-07:00

I must admit that the Java Posse does not only talk about 2 IDEs. But it fit the measure so well. So, please excuse me.
(After the great Java Posse BOF on JavaOne someone stole Tor Norbyes hat. See his blog.)

The World Is One Community

2006-06-08T13:48:00.002-07:00

Some are in and some are out.
A really really brilliant speech from Bruce Sterling inspired me.
(With special thanks to TWiT episode #56, in which this speech is mentioned.)

The Quick Start Guide For The NCC-1701-D, Chapter 1: Never ever use the holodeck toilet!

2006-06-07T23:26:00.000-07:00

This cartoon does not convey any message.

What's simplicity?

2006-06-06T14:52:00.000-07:00

There are great interviews held by Bruce Eckels with several big names in the programming world. My favourite is the one with Andrej Hejlsberg. He creates the notion of complexity covered by simplicity and calls it simplexity.
This inspired me to this cartoon.
(Thanks to the Java Posse who gave me the link to this interviews in their podcat #59)

2006-06-04T14:41:00.000-07:00

It' s amazing how Jonathan Schwartz acts. See his rectent blog entry, one if his numerous panel discussions (e.g. a panel discussion from last october) or one of his interviews (e.g. Java Posse). They all show an attitude which differs from most of the companies (wether in the IT- or in the brick-and-mortar part of the world).
I wonder if this is the beginning of a transformation in the market (or just an era): Does a company has to act like Sun (transparent and like a peer in a community) to succeed in the next 10 years? I haven't found an answer yet.